He has a very libertarian point of view, which to me gets absolutely batshit somewhere along the way most of the time, but Penn has enough sense to expand on that and say that yes we need taxes for things like roads (I think that was one of the examples he cited)

this is a topic of heavy debate in libertarian circles but I and a lot of libertarians I talk to are not against completely against all taxes. Most of us feel that how the government spends money is insane and ridiculous and we dont want our taxes paying to support an overseas empire and out of control military spending. but most of us recognize the need for roads, police, (a very very scaled down) military, and other essential services. libertarians by and large are not antitax they are anti out of control spending. of course like any political group we have our extremists that refuse to compromise but that is not the official position of the libertarian party.

Yup. That's my exact guess. Full aileron, expecting a perfect rotation around the longitudinal axis. Heck, I remember doing that dozens of times as a 12-year old in MS Flight Simulator. Took me a while to learn.

In Toronto the contractors are only allowed to finish their projects with temporary asphalt. The City of Toronto actually completes the final restoration at a later date. The red square in the asphalt is an indicator of who the work was for so the City can bill the utility company at a later date. In this case, it was Toronto Hydro.

Just recently, the City of Toronto changed their rules and the contractor must complete the final restoration on their projects. So this kind of thing will stop.

The city's rules are very straightforward on this. The contractor working for Toronto Hydro, ( the red pacth on the temporarily restoration) gets a cut permit, does the work and finishes with a temporary patch. The city hires another contractor to do the final restoration and charges Hydro for said restoration. The city uses a direct contractor rather then Hydro's contractor to make sure all city specs are adhered to and no short cuts are made. Often multiple utilities will work in an area over a span of a year or more before the city has final restoration done.

There is a desk at the airport where you can sign up for free trips. I did it last year, turns out I was the only one so I had a personal three hour guided tour around Narita and the temple. Highly recommend.

I don't think you're giving enough of the component parts their credit. What you're suggesting is reductionist filmmaking.

The lead animator, the individual animator(s), the storyboarding, the script, the voice acting all had their parts, and they all contribute. There's even more that goes into developing the nuance of a scene like that, and suggesting it's one animator doesn't cut it.

Facial expressions and scene designs are storyboarded out.

A common animation language is developed by a lead or team of leads.

Character modellers have to nail the look of character.

John C Reilly has to nail that line where he excitedly says "Eat, eat, eat!"

And above all, directors and production leads and their ilk have to tie this stuff all together to make a coherent film.

All of these component parts carry across an entire film, and it's why filmmaking is so hard.

It's why films rarely have just one good scene. When you can pull one good scene together — when you have this good of an understanding of comedic timing, art direction, voice acting, animation, etc. — you're probably pretty good at pulling lots of good scenes together.

She also claims that she personally witnessed Trump use racial epithets about the White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway, who is half Filipino. “Would you look at this George Conway article?” she quotes the president as saying. “F**ing FLIP! Disloyal! Fucking Goo-goo."

Correct me if I’m wrong here: project Treble means that, for a phone running un-customized Android, there is virtually NO update work required by the OEMs , it’s all just on google and the chipset makers, yes?

AFAIK: The catch is that there isn't quite such a thing as un-customized Android. You'll still need to update some software difference behind the scenes. And phone makers deliver their own Phone app, own Camera App. So pure AOSP Android isn't really a thing in most cases.

toronto really seems to be having a moment. i want to visit there someday.

i’m from seattle, so we visit vancouver and victoria fairly often. my mom spent much of her childhood in moose jaw, saskatchewan. my grandfather was a minister in winnipeg, manitoba. even after my grandparents moved back to the u.s., grandma maintained cultural traces of canada - serviettes, chesterfields, mandatory sugar-saturated iced tea, teacups adorned with the image of young queen elizabeth II. so i have very warm feelings toward canada and there are several cities and towns i want to visit. if any canadians are reading this, could you please help me prioritize my list of cities i’d like to visit? i’ll list vancouver and victoria too, even though i’ve already been there, because i’m curious about how you’d rank them. so here’s my list:

victoria

vancouver

calgary (i’m fascinated by the +15. good? bad?)

edmonton (maybe)

moose jaw (because of my mom)

regina

saskatoon

winnipeg (because of my grandparents)

toronto

ottawa

montreal

quebec city

halifax

any bad ideas on that list? how would you rank them from most worthwhile to least, touristically speaking?

thanks very much from your southern neighbor! (don’t worry - i’m one of the good ones.)

It's difficult to rank them in that fashion, because so many of the cities you've listed are in proximity to each other — ie, if you go to Montreal, you get Ottawa practically thrown in for free. Which is huge, because both of those cities are at the top of the list.

Calgary is fine, but mostly because of the park opportunities it creates access to. I travel a lot, and I've heard from several people around the world that they think Banff + Jasper is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

And then they will lose half of their market. The whole point of a Corvette is it kicks the shit out of more expensive cars at a helluva lot cheaper price point. The majority of people buying Corvettes are guys who grew up wanting a Corvette, but couldn't afford it until they retired. It's a lot easier to justify buying it at $60k than it is at $100k.

GM knows their market, and they wouldn't move the Corvette up that high.

The majority of people buying Corvettes are guys who grew up wanting a Corvette, but couldn't afford it until they retired.

But where I differ with you is that those guys will acquire a Corvette at pretty much any price. It's the car they've spent the last 40 years idolizing. They've got a couple million in the bank. You think $40k is going to make a difference?